Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Science & Nature - Environment

What is meant by the term "intelligence" and, once defined, how do we go about achieving a valid measurement of this faculty? This classic textbook, originally published in 1979, and now reissued with a new preface by Sybil Eysenck, incorporates a broad range of findings and reanalyzes much of the existing literature in this area. In The Structure and Measurement of Intelligence, Hans Eysenck draws on methods for determining the effect of genetics and environment on the development of intelligence and examines the validity of the term as defined in relation to internal as well as external...

Bianca Ryans is a fifteen year-old writer and artist who lives in California. She is a junior at Chaminade High School in West Hills. Her goal is to inspire people through her words and artwork. Bianca was inspired to write The Eclipse when she studied mythology in her high school class. The Eclipse is a classic love story that creatively explains the romance of the sun and the moon.

Bianca Ryans is a fifteen year-old writer and artist who lives in California. She is a junior at Chaminade High School in West Hills. Her goal is to inspire people through her words and artwork. Bianca was inspired to write Wally's Wish because as a teenager, it can be difficult to figure out who you want to be as an adult while you are still so young. Wally's Wish is a coming of age story, encouraging children to take their time growing up. After all, the more time spent in childhood will result in a very well-rounded adult.

In this exciting novel from the best-selling author of Peak, Roland Smith, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar to climb one of the most isolated mountains in the world.

This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller

Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?

"A wonderful tour de-force." --The Boston Globe

"A rollicking, righteous story." --The...

Following the events of Pulse Point, 12-year old Ama and the other Underlanders living in a world of darkness dig for brine, the City’s real energy source. Underland is a dangerous place: cave-ins, starvation and illness areconstant threats. When their leader deserts them, Ama goes looking for him and stumbles on two Citizens. Neither knew the other existed.18-year old Sari lives in the City, blissfully unaware of what goes on beneath her feet. The disappearance of her best friend, Kaia, has left her feeling isolated. A chance encounter with her sister leads her to join a group called the...

From Johanna Basford, 36 postcards for coloring in and sending to friends (or keeping for yourself )

These clever postcards feature beautiful drawings from Magical Jungle, illustrator and ink evangelist Johanna Basford's wondrous expedition through the jungle. Color in the cards to bring to life speckled tree frogs and dainty hummingbirds, prowling tigers and playful monkeys, and then share the magic with your friends--that is, if you can bear to part with them Each postcard is an invitation to an exotic rainforest teeming with creatures large and small.

For explorers...

This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change.

In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached...